One Cause of Railway Accidents
The subject of railway accidents having become a paramount one, travellers occasionally send an account of their experiences to the newspapers. Here is one of them:—"On…
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37 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 1 of 2
Arrival of the Suez Mail, Per "Avoca." Latest News to December 23. No War with Russia. Defeats of the French Armies in France. Paladine Removed From Command. Prussians Threatening Further Cities. French Government Removed to Bordeaux. Dissensions in Paris—provisions Reduced. Attempt to Kill the King of Prussia. Russia Does Not Wish War—conference to Be Held in London —Russia and Turkey Both Unrestricted Number of Vessels. Difficulty Between Prussia and Holland. Wool Active. Grant's Message to Congress. Restoration of the Bonapartes Probable. Fearful Railway Accident. Snider Rifles Issued to Volunteers. Wool Sales Closed at Advance. Baby Farming Disclosures. Mercury Office, Maitland, Tuesday morning, January 17
We have received the following important mail telegram from our Sydney correspondent:— The mail steamer has arrived…
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The Ballarat Evening Post of the 31st Dec[?] chronicles another of those mela[?]ly occurrences at one of our mining claims, which arc becoming so frequent. The scene of the last fatal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accident to the S.S. Lady Young. (From the Herald, Feb. 16.)
The A. S. N. Co.'s steamer Lady Young, left Sydney on Tuesday afternoon, at 5 o'clock, bound to Brisbane, with cargo and passengers. Yesterday forenoon the Company received intelligence that she had gone on…
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Shortly before eleven o'olook on Wednesday morning news reached town by wire from Port Stephens that the Lady Young (s.) had struck on a rock off Morna Point, and that her fore…
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Memphis, December 23.—One of the passengers of the Nick Wall gives the following details of the accident to that boat on Sunday night, that resulted in the death of over one hundred, passengers. The Nick…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Terrible Railway Accident. (From the Home News, Dec.30.)
A terrible accident occurred to the 4.25 down train on boxing Day from King's-cress to Peterborough, which consisted of a powerful engine and tender, a nearly-new second-class carriage…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Arrival of the Suez Mail. Latest News to February 21. the War Is Over. Peace Restored. Paris Starved Into Capitulation. Prussians to March Through Paris. Armistice, and Terms of Peace Being Arranged. French Assembly Elected, Gambetta Resigned. Theers President of the Republic. England Recognises It. Paris French Army Surrendered. Bourbaki Tried Commit Suicide. Parisian Forts Surrendered. Australian Meat Sent to France. Joint Commission to Settle the American Disputes and Claims. Wool Advancing—sales Opened with Spirit. German Terms—surrender of Forts and Some Country, and Large Indemnity. Proposal to Disestablish Church of England. Fatal Colliery Accidents Colliers' Strike. Maitland Mercury Office, Tuesday morning, March 14
We have just received the following important telegram from our Sydney telegraphic agent. Sydney, Tuesday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accident or Suicide. (From the Melbourne Argus, March 29.)
A fatal occurrence, under circumstances which might equally indicate either accident or suicide, took place on the Government railway line, at the Footscray station, on Monday evening. A…
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The papers of Marseilles give detailed accounts of the railway accident which took place on the 5th February between that town and Toulon. The train started from Marseilles at a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Melancholy Accident Through Playing with Fire-arms. (From a Correspondent of the Dubbo, Dispatch.)
At the Police Court, Brewarrina, on the 12th inst., before H. Cohen, Esq., J.P., and J. K. Doyle, Esq., J.P., Edward Flannery, a youth 15 years of age, was charged by…
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About half-past 11 o'clock yesterday forenoon, a crowd of urchins built a bonfire on the vacant lot corner of California and Powell streets. They had by some means become possessed of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Fatal Accident at Melbourne on Queen's Birthday. [From the Argus, May 25.)
The almost perfeot success aohieved in the Review was dashed just at the close by a lamentable accident, in which Mr. John Alexander, a corporal in the Engineers, of which corps he…
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The London correspondent of a contemporary writes:—"As your readers will perhaps have remembered that I informed them some little time ago that the accouchement of the Princess…
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We record with extreme regret an accident by which Mr.C.J Smithers, lately Clerk of Petty sessions for the police district of Maitland, is the sufferer. So far as we have been…
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One of the most alarming and destructive collisions that have happened off the [?]yne for a number of years occurred, about two miles from Shields Bar, on May 6. A new steamship, the…
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Dr. Dill, borough coroner, held an inquest in the dining-saloon, General Hospital, Belfast, on the bodies of Ellen Bailey and John Moore Craig, who were killed by the collision on the…
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The authorities of Dublin have forbidden the holding of a public meeting, called for the purpose of demanding the release of the Irish political offenders. Dublin—Sunday Evening…
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A correspondent of the Cleveland (Ohio) Herald, writing from Massillon, July 25th, says:— The circus of G. G. Grady exhibited here on Saturday last, and among the attractions largely…
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About two o'clock on the morning of July 11th, a collision took place in the Channel, which resulted in the loss of a large steamer and a full rigged ship, and placed in great peril…
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